International Women's Day 2025: For ALL Women and Girls
Message from our Honorary Chair Epsy Campbell Barr on International Women's Day:
Greetings on International Women’s Day 2025.
We join UN agencies, civil society organisations, and women's movements worldwide to celebrate International Women's Day under the theme, "For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment."
All women and girls have the right to play sport. Sport can be and should be a space where human rights are respected and promoted, and everyone has access to a safe, fair, and inclusive environment, regardless of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or any other status.
Indeed, sport, one of society’s greatest social forces, should be accessible to everyone. This is an opportunity to highlight that all women and girls, in all their diversity, have a place in sport, from the grassroots to the elite level.
When delivered responsibly and with respect for the human rights of all, sport is an effective tool to foster solidarity and advance gender equality.
This International Women's Day is even more unique, as it marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, considered the most progressive framework ever for advancing women's rights.
Sport is mentioned in the document, which requests governments, educational institutions, and sports bodies to provide all women and girls with:
- equal access to sports facilities, activities, training, and competition, free from all forms of violence and discrimination;
- equal pay, prizes, and working conditions; and
- the creation of gender-sensitive programmes to advance gender equality in sport.
May we honour the dreams and visions of the feminists who fought for our rights 30 years ago and continue transforming organisations across the sports ecosystem to fully realise all human rights and fundamental freedoms for ALL women and girls.
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